Gender Pay Gap

Running head - GENDER PAY GAP
Gender Pay Gap
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1GENDER PAY GAP
The essay introduces itself as a study that critically analyses the reason behind the gender
pay gap and the social inequality that women faces in the work place and work culture. Since the
dawn of organization, women have been considered as inferior when it comes to working. They
have not been entitled to get any form of responsibilities in the work culture. In fact to be
precise, they were not allowed to enter the corporation world (Gilman, C.P., 2018). Although
after the long run, they have been granted the scope to work side by side with men, but are nit
equally paid as them (Auspurg, Hinz and Sauer 2017). The following essay discusses about the
biased system in the pay grade. The essay also discusses about the theories regarding the
sociology, work and organization and also inequality theories.
The gender pay gap, which is also termed as gender wage gap is classified as the
differences between the average compensation among men and women that are serving the labor
organization is all kind of industries. It is considered that women are paid less than men although
they share the same amount of responsibilities (Hallward‐Driemeier, Rijkers and Waxman 2017).
The gap in the wages are classified or divided in to two separate groups with respect to the pay
game – unadjusted and adjusted pay gap. The adjusted pay gap could be defined as the
differences that women faces in hours of the work, the occupational choices, education and the
experience of job (Watson 2017). When a women is on maternity leave, the particular women is
not expected to earn as much as the person that is working at that time. These factors are
responsible for lower income in the yearly earnings for women. The unadjusted pay gap are
considered to be much higher (Auspurg, Hinz and Sauer 2017). These pays are the general
amount that is not paid to the women when it is compared to men. Men enjoy lot more of salary
and benefits in the global economic sector that women does (Angelov, Johansson and Lindahl
2016).